UConn Department of English February 2018
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Bedore, Pamela. “The Rise of the Professional Detective and the Dime Detective.” A History of American Crime Fiction. Ed. Christopher Raczkowski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 97-109. Bercaw Edwards, Mary K, and Wyn Kelley. “Melville and the Spoken Word.” In Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: A Norton Critical Edition: Third Edition. Ed. Hershel Parker. New York: Norton, 2018. 686-92. —. “All Astir.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 19.3 (2017): 137-40. —. “All Astir.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 19.2 (2017): 90-95. —. “All Astir.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 19.1 (2017): 120-21. Carillo, Ellen C. “Reading and Writing Centers: A Primer for Writing Center Professionals.” Writing Center Journal 36.1 (2018): 117-45. Marsden, Jean I. “An Odious Infection: The Eighteenth Century Looks Back.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 41.2 (2018): 89-93. Schlund-Vials, Cathy J. “Restaging, Reconfiguring, and Recollecting Perpetratorhood.” Journal of Genocide Research 20.1 (2018): 154-59. —. “Raising the Dead: The State and Stakes of Refugee Authorship.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 29.1 (2018): 1-7. Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., ed. “Precarious Subjects: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Refugee Narratives.” Spec. issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 29.1 (2018). Smith, Victoria Ford. “Return of the Dapper Men and the Nonsense of Neo-Victorian Literature.” The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children's Literature and Culture. Ed. Sonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day. New York: Routledge, 2017. 124-41. Sneeden, Brian. Last City. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, Feb. 2018.
Book Reviews and Other Contributed Work
Bercaw Edwards, Mary K. Interviewed by John Bender for “One Square Mile: Walk A Mile in Ishmael’s New Bedford.” NPR Rhode Island. 5 Feb. 2018.
Awards and Honors
Blansett, Lisa, and Brenda Brueggemann. General Education Oversight Committee (GEOC), award to support assessment of ENGL 1003-1004. Bohlin, Reme. Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) Institute fellowship. Columbus, OH, 8- 16 May 2018. ($1900 award from First-Year Writing Program’s CETL [FYW-CETL] grant for Large Course Redesign). Book, Ruth. AETNA Graduate Travel and Research Award. $500.00 Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research. Dennigan, Darcie. 2018 Project Residency from Cill Rialaig (Ireland) to work on a trilogy of plays inspired by Simone Weil’s writings on decreation. Mootz, Kaylee Jangula. Elected Graduate Student Representative for the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) for 2018-2021. Nelson, Marilyn. Winner of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. Proudfoot, Aaron. DMAC Institute fellowship. Columbus, OH, 8-16 May 2018. (Awarded a DMAC Diversity Scholarship for tuition). Rowe, Rebecca. DMAC Institute fellowship. Columbus, OH, 8-16 May 2018 ($1900 award from FYW-CETL grant for Large Course Redesign). Sneeden, Brian. PEN/Heim Translation grant for translation of Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi’s Rhapsodia. Feb. 2018.
Presentations
Bercaw Edwards, Mary K, and Wyn Kelley. “Literary Knots.” Thou Shalt Knot: A Symposium on Knotting Matters. International Guild of Knot Tyers. New Bedford, 21 Oct. 2017. Biggs, Frederick. “Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale: Why do Literary History?” Medieval English Seminar of the Faculty of English. Oxford, UK. 21 Feb. 2018.